by PC Editorial Staff | Jun 28, 2022 | Employee benefit plans, Medicare
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will impact employee access to reproductive care through employer group health plans in several ways. Markedly, the landmark decision overturned nearly 50 years of legal precedent that allowed women in...
by Editorial Staff | May 5, 2020 | COBRA, EBSA, Medicare
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has recently announced changes to specific notices required under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 (COBRA). Generally speaking, COBRA allows employees (and...
by Girish Anand | May 14, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare
As “Medicare for All” becomes the mantra of several candidates for president, all progressive Democrats, Washington State on Monday inaugurated its own version of a public option health insurance plan, based on expanding the qualifications for Medicaid to...
by Girish Anand | May 13, 2019 | Medicare
A Rand Corp. study has found that people with private insurance — 156 million of them with health insurance from work — pay, on average, twice more for hospital care than what those on Medicare pay. The study is based on payment rates by private insurers...
by Girish Anand | Nov 28, 2018 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CMS, Medicaid, Medicare
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is granting waivers for states to establish work requirements for the able-bodied who receive Medicaid health care services. The requirements usually consist of community service, job training or schooling, if not...
by Girish Anand | Jul 12, 2018 | Medicare
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed what it is calling “historic changes” that would increase the amount of time that doctors and other clinicians can spend with their patients by reducing the burden of paperwork that...